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PARLIAMENT. 11015:-E OF FRIDAY, Fees. 20. The House proceeded in 'Appeals. Mr. ;utmost presewed an Account of the ne ceipts and Dish , ,rst, : ments of the London Dock Company, and Mr Haworth, from the Exchequer, an Account of the produm of the Annual Duties. —o,(!eted to lie on th On the Motion of lb.. Earl of LAUDERDALE, an Acc-unt was ordered of Exchequer Bills„ issued betwcun 'he sth of January, 1817,• and the sth Janintry, 1818. (Th t h e mo tio n of Lord KING, an Account was ordered of the number 01 pursons eXecuteAl 'for tot gery,• from 1792 to 1818. A Road 13111 and an Inclo,sttrellill were brought up trffin the House of Commons by Mr. Sr. PAU L and other Members, and read a first time. The LORD CmANcELLowstated, on reference to the Journals respecting a former motion in 1808, for Papers respecting Offices granted in Itever sion, that the Order appeared to have been sent to the Secretary of State's Office for the Home Department, and that the then Secretary of State for that Department, Lord Hawhesbury, obtained the returns from the different Offices, and pre sented them altm:ether to the linose. •The 30,000,00(11. Exchequer Bills Bill, an the Malt Duties Bill, were read a third time, and passed. SECRET COMMITTEE. Lord Viscount SinmouTil presented, by com mand of the Prince Regent, another Sealed Bag of Papers, which were ordered to be referred to the Secret Committee.—Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Johnson, from the London Dock Company, presented an Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of the said Company, from the 30th November, I£ll6, to the 30th No vember, 1317. Also a Reportrelative to the progress of the 'Mork s. Ordered to lie on the table. There was laid on the table Accounts of the Prices oc Corn for last year, together with Accounts of the number of Ships cntploved in the Whale and Herring Fisheries. A petition was presented from the Dealers in Leather ia Worcester, against the Duties ou that article. Mr. CANNING presented a petition from Liverpool, pray ing fur a r• peal of the Duties on Salt. On the motion of Sir EGERTON BRYDGES, it was or dered that such parts of a former Order relative to the tight of Copyright, be forthwith complied with. I\lr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the Election Atnundn►cnt Bill, when, after some conversation INtwecn General Thornton, Mr. iVenn, and Sir William Burrottg-hs, the Amendments of the Committee were ;treed to, With an understanding that the trait► discussion would take place on the third reading. Mr. •10i - IN S:`,IYITI proposed a new clause to prent-any (Way or obstruction to the OIL by authorising the Returning Officer, in tlte event of any di,puted votes, to refer the consi deration of thcni tit , a place appointed for that purpose. This clause was agreed to. Sir W. BURROUGIIS thought it necessary to guard, by a specific provision, against any abuse which might arise from the claose enforcing a poll of 40)1 . 4rsons on the second day. app,went tw;jority, in t:eddrtee of the great body of electors, might thus be obtained. The object of the clause which he proposed was, that in place of a poll of 40croteri, to adopt votes tendett d to that amount. After some obseivations from Mr. Wynn and Lord Palmer ston, the clause was r egatived ; Mr. Wynn having expressed a determination to make the present provision Igss liable to be nliosed. . . . After some fuilber discnssion on the remaining clauses of the Bill, anti a re-statement by Mr. Lamb of the objections avllieh be entertained towards the measure, the Report was agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time on 'onday sc'nnight. A Message from the Lords announced their Lordships' as sent to the 30 - tuillionsExchequrr Bills; and the Malt Duties Bills. On the motion of Mr. Lusbingtorr, it was ordered, that at its rising the House should adjourn to Monday. Mr. BROUGHAM preSented a Petition from the inhabitants of Sunderland, in Durham, in . f.trour of the Chimney-sweepers Regulation Bill. On the motion of Mr. BENNET, and af`►r a few observa tions from Mr. LOCKHART, the Biil Was tarn read a third Ore, and passed. Mt. BROUGHAM presented a Petition from the ancient town of Winchcisca against the double tax on Leather. Ordered to be printed. Mr.TIERIN'EY, in the, name of an Honourable Friend of his (Mr.Philips), postponed his notice of a motion respecting the Petitions of persons complaining of grievances under the Auspensio► of the Habeas Corpus, from Monday to Friday, in consequence of the delay in the presentation of the Report of the Secret Committee. General THORN TON, in the name of an Hon. Friend of his (Mr. Calcraft), postponed his motion for Indemnification to the High Bailiff of Westminster, until Monday. Sir E. BRYDGES:postponed until Tuesday his motion relative to the Copyrights of Works claimed by the B►itish Museum. Adjourned until Monday. LITERARY REVIEW. SHAKSPEARE AND HIS TIMES: including the Biogra phy of that Poet ; Criticisms . on his Genius; a New,Chro nolegy of his Plays; a Disquisition on• the Object of his Sonnets ; and a History of the Manners, Customs, &c. &c. of Isis Age. By NATHAN DRAKE, M. D. Author of " Li teral y Hout s," and of f‘ Essays on Periodical Literature." Two Vols. 4to. 1817. CADELL and DA'sriEs. The publication of this work will form an epochs in the Shakspearean History of this Country. So abundant is the light thrown by it upon the sin gulatly interesting period - in which the Poet lived, that not only every admirer of his writ;ngs, but every person who is curious on the subjects of our literatute, manners, customs, and their i story, must occasionally resort to it for infor mation. Respecting the Poet himself, the least is acquired ; but for this reason only, because little was attaioable. Ail that could be done 'by exatniniog and comparing the materials already known, by research in the writings of AK"- /WE ARE and his Contemporaries, Dr. DRAKE has, with unwearied assiduity, and much sagacity, ef fected. But of little, much cannot fairly be made; and where no notices remain, the Bio grapher cannot be blamed for scantiness of infor mation. But for the works of the Poet, that most immortal part of bins, our Author has done more than all.his Commenta,tors together. He has pointed out the beauties of his earliest poems, with a critical judgment, against which no fair appeal can he made. He has ascertained, the ob ject of his Sonnets (hitherto a mystery), and re• pelled unmerited censure, in the most manly and effectual way, by pointing out their real beauties. He has laboured the chronological view of Os Dramas with more attention and exactness than any precedio t , , Author, and has pronounced the most reasonable judgment upon the claints of the Plays which have been doubtfully ascribed to SHAKSPEARE. He has extended his views to the Authors wino were contemporary as general l'octs, or nlio might be esteemed to have prepared the way for him iu the Drama. lo a word, he has left nothing undone which- a judicious admirer of our great Bard could have wished him to under take; and has performed nitteli which no one would haVe thought It reasonable to require. Such being our settled opinion, on the most mature consideration . 6t, Dr, DRAKE'S present work, it will nut 'e thoUght extraordinalq that eve should be desirous still further to extend our observations Upon it ; or even to continue theth to an article beyond the present. IVorks of such ela borate a:I successful research, united with so much sound and original criticism, ale of very rare oc currence ; and therefore, if, which we do not ex pect, we should by any persons be thought CO exceed our proper hounds, it is a fault. which we are not likely eery often to repeat. We cannot proceed further in our analysis of this work without noticing the most clear and just vindication of StiAnsPEARE against the charge of plagiarism, from a writer in all respects his in ferior. The charge was made by a most blunder ing, though well-intentioned writer in the Monthly Magazine, (most unpropitious vehicle !) who at once accusing, and attempting to defend, the bleat Poet, both on false grounds, has heaped mistake upon mistake, in a way which can hard ly•be, conceived, without seeing the statements of Dr. DRAKE. The sum of the accusation is, that SUAKSPEARE'S printer, JAGGARD, printed aS his, and with his permission, two Epistles which were written by Thomas Heywood ; and certainly had been printed long before in Heywood's book, en titled Britain'S Troy. The brief, but irrefragahle refutation of the charge is, that Heywood himself, when complaining of time printer, explicitly ac quits SHAKSPEAR . E of all concern in it. This ap pears in Heywood's Address to a bookseller (N. OxEs), prefixed to his " Apology for Actors," in which are these remarkable words " Here likewise, I must necessarily insert a manifest injury done me in that wo:ke, by taking the two Epistles of Paris to- Htlen, and Helen to Paris, and printing them in a lesse vultime, under the name of another (Shakspeare); which may put the world in opinion I might steale them from him; and hee, to do himzelfe right, lump since publist;ed them in his ovine name: hunt, as I t»ust acknow ledge my lines not wor•,th his patronage, under ~Thor'.} lie I►ath published them, so the author (Shakspeare) I know "(w as) much offended with Mr. Jaggard (the printer), that (altogether unienowne to him) presumed to make so bold with his name," &c. &c. " THOMAS HEYWOOD." All this very ctirions matter, both of accusation and defence, wil; be found in detail, in Dr. D.'s second Volume, bet wets, pp. 44 and 49. Having ably handled the whole sobject of his author's minor poems, Dr. DRAKE proceeds, in chapter VI. and VII., to give such a view of the dress, ,planners, and costorns of the inhabitants of Londoo, iu SHAI-LSPt~:t.tta's time, as he bad given in Part 1. chap. 5-9, of those of his rural con temporaries ; that is to say, an ample and masterly one., Chapter VIII. contains a brief, but very satisfactory, view of the rise of dramatic poetry in En gland, and of the authors in that line who preceded SHAKSPEARE. The ailthor3 SO tnOille !-.t,,,t ate only 20 in monber, and are placed in chronological order. Tim Tn w p as Sackvillo ; 2. Richard Edwards ; 3. John St tt , 4. Geo. Gascoigne ; 5. Lewis Wager ; G. Robert lVilmot ; 7. Thomas Garter ; 8. Thionas Preston ; 9. Geo. %Vapid ; 10. Thomas L , lpturi ; 11. Gco. Whetstone ; 12. Nathaniel ',food ; 13. Geo. Peele ; 1.1. John Lilly ; 15. Thos: litighea ; 16. Thomas Kyd ; 17. Christopher Marlowe ; IS. Thomas Lodge ; 19. Robert Greene ; 20. Thomas Legge. Of these writers, though some are ac knowledged to have pos , essed, and occasionally displayed, in their dramas, considerable poetic 'powers, it is clearly shown, that no one Cali be supposed to liaye offered any advantageous Model or example far the genius of SnaKsrEartß. Cer tain anonymous plays which appeared in the same interval are also enumerated. Extracts from the characters given, of these poets, and their dramas, might here be inserted with great advantage to the reader and the author ; but, as we are o`diged, from the nature of our publication, to study com pression rather than copiousness, we must content ourselves with only referring to them, as judicious and able pieces of criticism. We now come, in chapter IX., to the impor tant period of our Bard's commencing, dramatic Poet, which, by arguments of great tome and pro bability, Dr. DRAKE has assigned to the year 1590. The chronological list of his plays, as arranged by this critic, stands .thus-1. Pericles, 1590, (the arguments for which, being justly- attributed to SnaxsrEaßE, we will notice hereafter) ; 2. Co medy of Errors; and 3. Love's Labour Lost, 1591 ; 4. Henry VI. Part I. and 5. Part 11. the second and third of the common editions, 1592, (excluding entirely that which has been called usually Part I.) ; 6. Midsummer Night's Dream, and 7. Romeo and Juliet, 1593 ; 8. Taming of the Shrew, 1594 ; 9. Two Gentlemen o( Verona, and 10. King Richard 111. 1595 ; 11. Richard 11. ; 12. Henry IV. Part I. and 13. Ilenry IV. Part 2. 1596 ; 14. The Merchant of Venice, and 15. Hamlet, 1597 ; 16. King John, and 17. All's Well thit ends well, 1598 ; 18. Henry V. and 19. Much Ado About Nothing, 1599 ; 20. 'As You Like It, 1600 ; 21. Merry Wives of+ Wind- Sor, and 22. 'Troilus and Cressida, 1601 ; 23. Henry VIII. and 24. Tinton of Athens, 1602.; 25. Measure for Measure, 1603 ; 26. King Lear, 1604 ; 27. Cymbeline, 1605 ; 28. Macbeth, 1606 ; 29. Julius Caesar, 1607 ; 30. Antony and Cleopa tra, 1608; 31. Coriolanus, 1609 ; 32. The Win ters Tale, 1610 ; 33. The Tempest. 1611 ; 34. Othello, 1612 ; 33. Twelfth Night, 1613. • It will be observed, that in this list Titus An dronicus, and all the additional pieces which are contained in the fourth folio, and reprinted in Mr. MaLoNe'S Supplement, viz. Sir John Oldcastle, &c. are omitted, for which the author assigns his r.:asons at large in the proper place. The obser vations occurring in support' of this arrangement, and in further illitstratiott of the plays, might afford a most abundant harvest of citations ; all these, however, with whatever else the work may appear to require, we purpose to •comprise in another article of criticism.-(To be continued.) *** As THE PRESS is unceasingly prolific, it is our intention to endeavour to keep race with We received last night the Paris Papers of Tues day last, and this morning those of Wednesday. They continue the same silence respecting the re cent Attack upon the Duke of WELLINGTON', nor do they mention a syllable of the success of any efforts made to discover the assassin. Regarding the nun►erous arrests stated in a Brussels Paper to have been made at Paris, of persons suspected of being -:oncerned in the crime of the attempt, not a word is said in these Journals. The following are Extracts : • Tberer'ire, if kte are not onaVoidably divert ed froni Our ain't by temporary matter, We shall Almost DAILV insert brief Remark upon such Pub litation* As may d'eßerVe 'our notice; not, bow:. ever, oVeilookiil - 4 IVorks of it that are not immediately netV. TO CO RR I,,ONDENTS. We Should be heariily ashatried of baring delayrd many Fa vours, if we were nut assured that the Parliamentary De bates and. Other temporary matters will offer a stifficient apology. SARATum.—lti the Sof:xrf ofThursday talt, in the thikl line fioni the bottom, instead of must tend meet. THEATRICAL REGISTER: Dfttrity-LAN:E.-NO PERETTEENANCE: COVE!:T-GABDEN.-AN °BATEAU). MAILS. AititivEn-1 Dublin, e Waterford, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 France, I Jamaica. DUE-2 Gottenburgb, I Lisbon. • PRICE 0 F STOCKS wEt.vp: o'cimcrt. THIS DAY AT T Bank Stock 288/ 3 per Cent. Red.... 30i 3 per Cent. Cons ...... ..79ii 4 per Cents. 991 5 per Cent. N. Ann ..►O6 Bank L. Ann.... 20j 15-16tIti• Imperial 5 per Cent. Aurt. 79 India Bonds 100 s. pr. Exch. Bills 51d....13s 9.15. pr. Ditto, 2A-d. 22s 2as. pr. Cons. fur Account. 79ii HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 51 minutes after Y. Evening, 46 minutes after 3. THE SUN. SIOLEt qv's inceltr. A I.° U . 31 AU S 3 EA ? LONDON, SATURD4Y, FEBRUARY" 21, ISIS. " CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEB. k 7 " The Chamber of Deputies assembled in Se cret Committee. " il. Dupont (de PEure) developed his p?o -position respeetipg the Press. " M. Blanquart Bailleul objectert . ter it in point of form. " The proposition was rejectot by an immense majority. " M. Dobruel developed • a proposition for prafmg . bii Majesty to revise -the laws respeeling the pairrnal , • . 4( It was ordered to be printed. " PARis, FELL )8 —According to an Onion 'lance of the Minister of State, Prefect of. Police, the price of the loaf of Bread, Of four pounds, is fixed at 17 sous, from the 17di inst. The Report cm the Recruitment Projet will not, it is said, be made to the Chamber. of . Peers before Saturday next. " The Prince of Cond4 has visited the Duke of llTcliingron. " Broneau, calling himself Louis XVII., and his associates, were interrogated at great length on Monday by the President of the Court. The trial was adjourned till the next day. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Monday " Tuesday " FRANKFORT, FEB. 12.—1 t is again said, that the Allied Sovereigns will meet here iu the month of May. " Ucsse CASSEL, Fan. 6.—The Elector is still indisposed, and his great age renders his illness. dangerous. • " NANTES, FEB. 13.—Intelligence has been received of the sudden opening of a. Volcano at Soufriere, in the island Of St. Lucia, which has done considerable damage.' We received this moruing, Jamaica Papers to the I Sth ult. : (From The Royal Gazette.) ""ST. JAGO DE LA VEGA, JAN. 10, 1818.--411 s Grace the Governor having, by Proclamation, appointed yesterday as a day of Pu . blic Prayer and Humiliation, on account of the Death of her Royal Highness the Princess CHARLOTTE An- GUSTA, the same was observed with all due so lemnity in this town. Divine Service was per formed in the Church, which was hung with black on the occasion, by the Rev. Mr. HAmm, ToN, who delivered a I:,ostimptessive Sermon on the melancholy subject, taking his text from Job, chap. 30, verse 23 :—" For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house ap pointed for all living."---The Reverend Gentle man drew an affecting picture of the vicissitudes of hiunan tile, and the changes wh i ch a year, a month, a day, or even an hour, might•produce ; which he illustrated .b . y contrasting the late fes tivities, on the Anniversary of the Lirtli of Our Saviourovith the gloom and the garb of txoe with which - we were - now covered. Lie then Same. dep:ei,ta ti•it nncertainty of homati and the 'certainty Of ( 1 1 ,ii death w hi c h ne ither wealth, nor rank; nor voUth, could a'void. A: that very moment, perhap ; matiy iti every c.}4'. , and at every age, Wert eliieriettciug the pan;N • of parting exislenee ; and youth - , NA beauty, and' : wealth, and grandeur, ,were, 'without discrintina- \ HMI, mingling with their parent dust. After thus impressing on the minds of his congregation ti ;e cransitoty enjoyments of this world, he opened to thetri the consoling reflections which arose tti the breast of every Chiiitian; oti the full assot ance of the felicities of a future life, reminding 11 of the beautiful lines of Beattie " When doulpts, and when darkness, are faded avraYs " And beauty; immortal, awakes from the tomb r ° " His Grace the Governor and Suite entered the Church at ten o'clock, and immediately after be was seated, the service commenced. 'Several Members of the Council and Assembly alsO a 7. tended, as well as all the Officers of the Garri son ; and not only the pews, but the aisles, werc unuittally crowded with all classes, who wail/ sympathised in those feelings of regret which the melancholy occasion was so well calculated to in spire. " 13otb the Synagogues in this town were taste fully hung with black cloth and crape, and vine Service performed therein, by prayers . , 31 “ 1 reading several psahn,s selected for the ac c3-. sions, as well as those commonly used. tions were also delivered,. composed for the °CO` tjon by the Bedin. Several were also a udihlf chauated by the llazans, and repeated by'r b° Congregation and prayers having been put "? to God for the Kiog and Royal Family, t hc whole concluded with "Alen@ le Sh4eah," an d . " " KINGSTON, JAN. 17.-11 v the Catherine Ann* we learn, that on the 24th nit. a sloop 0f war, two brigs, and two schoontrs, under the ;?revel; flag, appeared off Santa-Martha, and, after lyiltEr Co for oe,rly one hour, passed to leewal - d ; theY were from Cadiz bound to Porto-Bello, fr° ll/ whence they were to proceed to the Havanoal3, with specie, on account of the Spanish GJver fl... mem, and :hence to return to Cadiz witty tlbe " KisasToN, DEC. the igth insr the Nat assn, the San Francisco was captured L'Eciair Independent schooner, comnondeall one Dennis Thomas, a native of Hayti, vri tk) motley crew of all nations. They hung u p Ge t ' Vi . alsh for a considerable Cote, ill-treated the Supercargo, and threatened to stab him onle 9t 0,0.gy wag given to then). To save the ces sell the supercargo was obliged to give a deaft frr : 1004 dollars as a ransom, when ',he tras permitto to proceed, most of the San Francisco's mess haviuK volunteered oil board the privateer, whose Col' tSill ke pt Captain Walsh's papers, and g ave 4 ° lira supercargo the tollots'ing certificate hooli er 44 I, tire undersigned C a pt a i n of th e I n d epe ndent' 9 e L'Eciair, having captured, o ri th e ni g ht o f the 19th of '- c a cember, the Spanish schooner San F ranc i sco , Captain Ge°rg.i._ Walsh; and having released ber for a ransom of 1 0 ° 1. lars, have given to the Supercallo Valentine Louis tO " content, to serve hint in case of necessity. The sOid laden with cattle,was from Monte-Christobound to JalO ic d . Given at sea the 20thof Dketuher, 1817, in lat. 19. SO• r. 68. from the Meridian of Cadiz, " DENNIS THOMA' " KINGSTON, DEC. 20.—Iiis Grace tbe 6°' rernor having been pleased, pn Tuesday, t° rr rogue the House of Assembly until the 1011004' clay (as will be seen on a reference to the r notes), the Members met accordingly at 2 °'e l°c on Wednesday, and his Grace having ormed thereof, their attendance was sho rtl y desired in the Council Chamber,. wheu Gr4c opened the Session with the following Sp eect/ " Gentlemen of the Council, been la; " Mr. tipeakcr, and Gentlemen of the Assernbl) , ccl have called you together fur the , urpci eof clisPu s4 d f° o , such portion of the public business as was left InifiisPe coo the close of the late Session, and I am persuaded 11 ' 31 will proceed to the consideration of it with your usu al al a cr " Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the AsseullAY) cc The assurance I so lately received from you of Pi° reams diness to grant the necessary supplies, convinces 111 e ua your disposition on this important point still rental° changed." "To which the fioinie of Assembly.returl'' • following Address : The lofileide .-Irldress of the 4,vsembl 0 1" Janie° . " J iay it please your cirace, o er" W " e, his Majest's dutiful and loyal subjects, tl/c lo ot bly of Jamaica, beg leave to return you oUr thatilis °ti Sin ech at te . openiog of (lic Ses:tion. „ to t° " Your Grace may he assured that we shall proce ed 3 iv' disposal of such parts of the public business as real 3ine i - tl, O finished at the clue of the Session, with the same r e3(..ll)4 ' r e whicb we have always sliewn to attend to yoUr• G race coinmen44ation. 4 4 t t" 'our Grace will final that our disposition to Oa usual supplies remains unaltered." lIIS GRACE'S ANSWER : " Mr. Speaker, and Ci,ntlemen of the AssArobty, .cricc " I return yon my thanks for your AddrctsV: MY csger! of your liberahty assured me that'you wou ld grant Luc- • plies as ti,e public service may require. " The Rouse having returned, the role s ("f the last Session were o:dered to be tije rulesP f t" - Pl'c-z•e Hugh `'oral k the' Jurit th e !rum ra; is th e th e all , 11101 Pas! tier